The next day, Zhao Yi returned to work. Taking advantage of the few days left before the annual meeting, he quickly sorted out the technologies related to the global satellite communication network and handed them over to his various companies to step up preparations.
If he wants to build a satellite communication network covering the world, he has actually given relevant technologies to Future Space Technology Company before. Logically speaking, he does not need to be responsible for it personally. They have relatively mature technologies.
However, compared with the previous satellite communication system, the system he built this time is larger in scale, has higher requirements for digital bandwidth, and the number of devices that need to be connected at the same time is also very large.
More importantly, he wants to spend less money to achieve this goal. The current communication satellites of Future Space Technology Company cost hundreds of millions of yuan each.
If 2,000 satellites are used to form a global satellite communication network, it will cost a huge amount of money. Not to mention making money, it is estimated that the losses will fall off.
Therefore, it needs to adopt many new technologies to achieve the purpose of large capacity and large load at low cost. Only in this way can it be promoted at a price acceptable to ordinary people.
In addition, it is also necessary to sort out the technologies related to ground reception of satellite signals and hand them over to its major companies so that they can embed relevant receiving devices in their products.
The most important ones are of course the three smartphone manufacturers. Their next-generation smartphone products will be released around the middle of the year, and they must get this done in about half a year.
Of course, the simplest thing is to embed satellite signal receiving components separately, but Zhao Yi hopes to integrate satellite signal receiving technology into the SOC chip. This is much more difficult and requires a certain amount of effort from its affiliated companies.
In addition, in order to take care of the use of home broadband, it is necessary to develop a separate satellite signal receiving device, which is similar to the "pot lid" in the previous life. Using this device to receive signals makes the signal more stable.
The technical difficulty of this "pot lid" is to be able to track satellite signals in the sky in real time, so that the satellite signals will not be interrupted after the satellite passes by, and the satellite signals must be seamlessly connected.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't use this device. There may be signal fluctuations, but overall it won't be a big problem, at least it won't have much impact on ordinary Internet access.
The reason why the global satellite communication network is prioritized is that on the one hand, there is a lot of work that needs to be coordinated and it needs to be arranged as soon as possible. It also takes a lot of time to launch.
Although the launch efficiency of Future Space Technology Company is very high, it is not an easy task to send 2,000 satellites into satellite orbits in a short time, and all aspects of arrangements need to be made.
Fortunately, these satellites are all small satellites and can be launched using multiple satellites with one rocket, which can not only save a lot of time, but also save launch costs.
On the other hand, time is relatively tight. It is best for the global communication satellite network to be successfully established before the housekeeping service robot is launched, so that it will not affect the function of the housekeeping service robot.
Although housekeeping service robots can only operate domestically now, they are not particularly dependent on satellite communication networks because most domestic households have their own Internet signals.
However, domestic service robots are not always at home. For example, taking children to and from school, going to the vegetable market to buy food, etc., domestic service robots need to go out of the house, and this is when satellite communication networks come into play.
Although this will not bring additional income to his housekeeping service robot, because these are reflected in the rent, it can greatly increase the user experience and broaden the service types of the housekeeping service robot.
Moreover, finalizing the technical standards of the global satellite communication network as soon as possible will also enable its corporate products to adapt to the new satellite communication network and join the satellite communication network system faster.
Like the previous global satellite communication network of Shangtong Trading Company, although it also covers the whole world, it provides strong support for the development of Shangtong Trading Company's global business.
But compared with the global satellite communication network he has established now, it is much inferior in all aspects. However, the satellite launched by Shangtong Trading Company has not been used for a few years, and it will definitely not be scrapped, but it is also technically behind.
Therefore, he needs to incorporate the global communication satellite network of Shangtong Trading Company into his satellite communication network and become an integral part of it.
However, the standards between the two are very different. It is not a simple combination. This requires many technologies to unify the standards between the two. At least when providing external services, they must be unified.
Together with the 2,000 satellites he launched this time, the combined carrying capacity and communication service quality will be higher. In particular, the synchronous satellites of Shangtong Trading Company located in geostationary orbit will play a great role.
In this case, he does not need to launch geosynchronous satellites. He can directly use the geosynchronous satellites of Shangtong Trading Company to achieve his purpose, which saves another amount of money.
You must know that launching geosynchronous orbit satellites, leaving aside the satellite manufacturing cost, the launch cost is much higher than launching low-orbit satellites. It is also impossible to launch multiple satellites with one rocket. Basically, one rocket can only launch one satellite.
More importantly, although the launch of geostationary satellites can theoretically achieve rocket recovery and has been successful in practice, the success rate is still much lower than that of low-orbit launches.
Moreover, incorporating Shangtong Trading Company's satellite communication needs into this global satellite communication network can be regarded as a large-scale terminal access test.
Although he is extremely confident in his technology, he still needs to conduct a large-scale test before launching the business, and the business volume of Shangtong Trading Company is sufficient as a test sample.
As for whether it will affect the global business of Shangtong Trading Company, it will not be very big, because during the test, the satellite communication network they are currently using is also retained. If there is a problem, it can be switched back in a very short time. .
If you are still worried, you can also have two signals coexisting at the same time, which is safer and safer. In fact, in his opinion, there is no great necessity to do so.
Because there is no big problem if the business of Shangtong Trading Company goes offline in a short period of time.
Not to mention the transport ships traveling on various routes, but also drone delivery services that have high network requirements. Drones can also handle problems caused by network disconnections in a short period of time and have certain self-adjustment capabilities.
But let Shangtong Trading Company decide what to do at that time. He does not need to consider these details. However, after the completion of the global satellite communication network, the benefits brought to Shangtong Trading Company are real.
As the business scope of Shangtong Trading Company continues to expand and the complexity of the business continues to increase, the demand for this kind of edge support system is becoming stronger and stronger, and the funds invested every year are not small.
In the future, handing over satellite communication needs to third parties can save them a lot of money, and they do not need to consider upgrades all the time. It also reduces a lot of related personnel costs.
After the two satellite communication networks are merged, Shangtong Trading Company's satellite communication network maintenance personnel will be directly transferred to the Global Satellite Communication Network Company in his hands.
On the one hand, it can reduce the overall size of personnel and reduce unnecessary costs. On the other hand, our country does not have many talents in this area, and we do not have the conditions to waste it.
After it is integrated with the Shangtong Trading Company's satellite communication network and operates well, the TV satellite communication system in the hands of ATV will also be included, thus forming the only satellite communication system covering the world.
After sorting out this information, he sent it directly to Future Space Technology Company, which would then break down the project and hand it over to other brother companies to produce related parts and components, so he didn't need to worry about these.
After finishing this matter, he will focus on the housekeeping service robot project. There are mainly two aspects that he needs to worry about.
The first aspect is the research and development and manufacturing of fully automated production lines. With the current strength of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, it is still a little short of producing such a fully automated production line.
However, he has no plans to hand over this technology to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, because it is not yet time. If it is handed over to them now, they will probably apply it to their own production lines soon.
Although they can be ordered not to use fully automated production lines, this will dampen their enthusiasm and is completely unnecessary.
What's more important is that they go through all the processes in one step. Not only will the number of ordinary workers be greatly reduced, but R&D personnel may also face the risk of being laid off.
As a private enterprise, it is impossible to raise idle people. Even if it wants to add more jobs, it must be useful jobs that allow employees to play their role instead of going to work every day and doing nothing.
That is not just a matter of money, it is likely to bring about bigger management problems. Once people are idle, they are more likely to cause trouble, which is very detrimental to the development of the enterprise.
So this time he broke down the entire fully automated intelligent production line, sent each component to his subsidiary companies, and asked them to produce it and hand it over to him.
Then he can let high-end robots help assemble the entire fully automatic intelligent production line. After the first batch of robots are produced, these robots can replace humans to do some trivial tasks.
The second aspect is to dismantle the parts related to humanoid robots, and then let his companies produce and deliver various parts. Moreover, these parts are only part of them, not all.
Mainly robot materials, sensors, optical components, etc. As for other parts, they will be completed on fully automated intelligent production lines. This can keep a lot of secrets.
Although humanoid robots will eventually enter thousands of households, there will be many anti-disassembly technologies inside to ensure that even if they are dismantled, the core secrets will not be obtained.
What's more important is the core of artificial intelligence. Without this thing, it is basically impossible to develop an identical robot.
The core of artificial intelligence is not on the robot. They are all subsystems installed on them. The real core of robot intelligence is still deployed in the background.
First of all, it is easier to keep secrets and it is not easy for others to crack the intelligent core program. Secondly, the robot's computing power cannot bring up the intelligent core, so it can only be done in this way.
You must know that high-end robots that want to run their intelligent core independently have specially developed photonic chips, while the chips of housekeeping robots are still silicon-based chips.
Although it has been specially designed and optimized to meet the computing power requirements for running intelligent core subsystems, it does not break away from the scope of silicon-based chips, and inherent limitations still exist.
Moreover, this chip must use a higher process. Although according to the current technical level of Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, it is not difficult to put it into production. Their reserve technology can meet the requirements.
But it is not that easy to build a new chip production line. It takes a certain amount of time and energy, especially for Qingtian Semiconductor Company, which is even more difficult.
Although he previously ordered Qingtian Semiconductor to maintain a process technology that is one generation behind Tianxing Semiconductor, this has indeed been the case in recent years.
But the fundamental problem is that the technical level of Qingtian Semiconductor is still much lower than that of Tianxing Semiconductor. Even their chip production lines require Tianxing Semiconductor to provide personnel and technical support, but the outside world does not know it.
Although they can get the same chip equipment as Tianxing Semiconductor, the equipment alone is not everything. What is more important is how to apply these equipment to build chips that can produce higher-level processes.
This time, the chip manufacturing process he needed was not available in Tianxing Semiconductor Company. The two companies needed to carry out targeted research. He had no intention of explaining these technologies directly.
According to what he means, they are fully capable of developing it with some effort. In this case, they must give full play to their research and development capabilities instead of pushing it himself.
Only if there is a big technical gap and cannot be developed in a short period of time based on existing technical strength and scientific research capabilities, he will provide detailed technical information to help them proceed smoothly.
It is also very beneficial for the two companies to work together to develop new chip production lines. After all, even if they don't need it now, they will still need it in the future.
Especially for Qingtian Semiconductor Company, this R&D process is a process of their own improvement, which plays a huge role in cultivating their own chip manufacturing R&D strength.
Previously, they only passively used Tianxing Semiconductor's sub-level chip manufacturing technology and did not master many core technologies. They were in a subordinate position in the field of semiconductor manufacturing.
Maybe after this mission, they will slowly catch up technically. If they can work harder and be more ambitious, they may even surpass Tianxing Semiconductor Company.
Although the two companies are brothers, they still have to compete. The reason for establishing another semiconductor manufacturing company was, on the one hand, to squeeze other competitors out of this field and firmly grasp the mid-to-high-end chip manufacturing market.
On the other hand, there is no idea of putting pressure on Tianxing Semiconductor Company. It’s just that over the years, Qingtian Semiconductor Company has not assumed this responsibility. In addition, the first goal has basically been achieved, so he has not intervened too much. .
As for the chips used in this robot, he previously wanted to hand them over to two companies to jointly complete, because the demand for chips is huge, and the annual demand may reach 200 million pieces, which one company cannot supply in a short time.
But now that foreign markets are prohibited from entering, he can only focus on the domestic market, and the demand has been reduced by at least half, so he plans to let Qingtian Semiconductor Company alone to help with production, which is also in line with the company's foundry positioning.
After sorting out this part of the technical information, he sent it directly to each of his companies. To be honest, although it was not difficult for him to organize the information, the amount of information was quite large.
Like before, if you need to type it out one by one by hand and draw the drawings yourself, it will be impossible to complete it in such a short time. Even if you don't stop for a moment, your fingers will probably not obey the orders.
This reflects the power of brainwave technology. Although inexplicable things may appear due to some distracting thoughts, for him, this situation is very rare.
Since the brain has been greatly developed, concentration has been greatly enhanced. When focusing on one thing, there are fewer distracting thoughts, and there are very few situations that are inconsistent with the main intention.
Coupled with the close cooperation of junior artificial intelligence, many of his intentions can be well understood, especially when drawing drawings. It is not much different from direct copying, it is just copied from the mind to the computer. .
However, this level of brainwave technology does not mean that it is perfect. In terms of the reaction speed of brain thinking, computer equipment is still much slower, but it is not the same as typing and drawing by hand.
In fact, this kind of slow response consumes a lot of energy on him after using it for a long time. It's like playing a game. Although his thinking and hands are in place, the result is always a little less fun because of the speed of the Internet. Very frustrating.
Especially when there is a lot of information to sort out, he has to work for an hour or two, and then he needs to stop, do other things or take a break, adjust his mentality, and work again.
Compared with the complexity of the above projects, the holographic projection system and smart glasses are the simplest. All the components of the holographic projection equipment can be handed over to Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, which only needs to be responsible for the intelligent system part.
Moreover, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company has many ready-made parts for holographic projection equipment, but the light source needs to update their existing technology, and the requirements are much higher.
As for smart glasses, not to mention, all you need to do is downgrade the smart glasses currently in use, remove the military technology, and replace high-end materials and parts with lower-cost civilian parts.
If you want to make a lot of money, you must have a certain degree of popularity, so that there is a large enough market, and the cost must be low enough, so that you can have more profit margins. This is what he is mainly doing now. (End of chapter)